In 2026, after nearly 90 years, the Institute of Design was folded into Illinois Tech's School of Design & Society.
This website is an archive of the impactful and inspirational work produced by the ID community before that transition.

László Moholy-Nagy opened the New Bauhaus in Chicago in 1937, treating design as a discipline that was teachable, testable, and consequential. Nine decades on, its scope had widened from the things people use to the systems they depend on: hospitals, government agencies, classrooms, supply chains, digital platforms. Along the way, ID community members developed the published research, methods, and frameworks that designers rely on every day.

Chief among them is human-centered design: close attention to how people actually live, and advocacy for what that research reveals. It shaped designers who are comfortable with complexity and ambiguity: curious, rigorous, inclusive, and stubbornly optimistic about design's ability to change the systems that shape our lives.

To every one of them, who taught, studied, built, critiqued, and stayed late in the studio: thank you, and keep designing.

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Bill Hill

Capital One, Director, Ecosystem Design, Integrated Experiences

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Bill Hill is a creative director, designer, entrepreneur, and educator helping global companies, nonprofit organizations, and educational institutions evolve using his skills in business strategy, experience design, and branding.

After an 11-year career at IDEO Product Development, Bill founded the San Francisco office of MetaDesign in 1992 with a mission to create value for clients through the integration of design and business. He helped build MetaDesign into an international consulting firm that solved branding, information design, and strategic service problems through branded identities, customer-centered interfaces, and environmental graphics.

From 2012 to 2014, Bill was director of creative services at Silicon Valley Bank in Santa Clara, California. He returned to consulting with Experience Design, Inc. to compliment his other full-time job as the dad of Zoe and overseer of a growing collection of chickens and rabbits in their garden in Marin County, California.